What are you NOT drinking?

[RetiredUSNChief]

Jim Beam just lost a ton of whiskey to a fire.

45,000 barrels...gone.

Forty. Five. THOUSAND.

At 150 to 200 bottles per barrel, that's up to 9,000,000 bottles GONE.

According to one article, retail value could be as high as $300,000,000.

At least it was "relatively young".

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/...troys-45000-Barrels-of-Bourbon-512168971.html

 

[ECNC]

Wow! Price of Bourbon going up.

 

[fieldgrade]

And this, ladies and germs, is why we have insurance.

 

[RR]

53 gallons per barrel. 2.385 million gallons of bourbon gone.

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

 

[BBD280]

I feel like fire and my 20s have a lot in common now.

 

[Schattenreiter]

And this, ladies and germs, is why we have insurance.

Except the fact that insurance is the only industry that wants to get paid up front and then wants out of the deal if they actually have to go to work.

 

[fieldgrade]

I read somewhere last night that Jim Beam is the most popular bourbon in the world and this loss is only 1% of their stock/inventory (or something)

 

[turkeydance]

"Jim Beam is now seeping into the Kentucky River."
old punch line: Shall We Gather at the River?